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Actually, CT or MR with a 3D reconstruction would be very cool. You could then take exceedingly accurate measurements of the bore, because you could remove the timber and have just the bore image. Hmm . . . Stuart Pardon my dullness, are you serious? I know you and the rest of the RNs/MDs/PDs/LPNs/...

Ted wrote: Medir says they will try to send softer cane if asked to do so. This remains to be seen.

I just received some - it's much softer than what I'd gotten before (via Nick Whitmer, US distributor). I asked for as soft as they had, also.

Kevin, other than having played them, are you connected to the sale of these sets in any way? I WILL demand a fee. Maybe the temporary use of a folding chair, or a cup of tea. Brad's not cantakerous at all! No! Well... The above is dialogue from the movie "Full Metal Jacket," with RLee Er...

Y'all should listen to Peter's clips playing the pipes on this here website. He's the swingingest sonovabitch you've ever heard on the chanter. Tim Britton also swings on the pipes, so much so that a friend of mine just up and chucked all of his Tim tapes into the garbage, it was "too much bebo...

This tune is derived from an old air, Mo Paistin Fonn. My Fairhaired Child. "The Pustheen Fawn" I think it's called as a jig in Ryan's Mammoth Collection. The parts have become reversed in this modern version.

2 new Brad Angus sets are on sale on Ebay, a standard full set in B, copied from Coyne: ebony, brass, with boxwood mounts, and a copy of a John Egan 18th century full set: 4 drones (standard 3 plus A/G drone, contrary to the given description, 1 regulator, keyless chanter, boxwood and brass with mam...

It sounds like Mark's spoken with Hugh already, he is listed as curator of the Scottish culture department at the Museum's website. They mention having a "fully chromatic Uillean pipe" [sic]. Measuring pipes fully is quite an endeavour, a box full of gauges in gradients of 1/4mm is employe...

I was told the best contact was DAP Weldwood, with at least a week's drying, preferably under some boards/cinder blocks.

You can try making the reed harder to blow, by opening the lips, compressing the bridle or sliding it up (if it can slide). The keys may be leaking-blowing smoke through the pipe with the endcap off and the exit plugged is the best way to detect leaks; otherwise blow air and listen carefully for his...

I've made some nice tenor drone reeds from twigs of Norway Maple, Acer platanoides, a very common street and ornamental tree. Its leaf is used as the logo of the Toronto Maple Leafs ice hockey team. Go Leafs! These are very hard twigs-I always snap a few strings making the tongue. Huh? you say. I cu...

One old 78 I've on a tape, of a group called McConnell's Four Leaf Shamrocks, is like that-really straight ahead and driving. Shanachie's original Wheels of the World had a record by a fiddler, James Swift, included perhaps as an antidote or reposte to the tracks of Coleman and Morrison-the liner no...

Some of these old time Clare fiddlers had some strong idiosyncracies in their playing, you should hear Junior Crehan (I think it was him! Ceol an Clare record) play Sean O'Dwyer of the Glens, for instance. Really choppy bowing in places. From a background like that nothing Martin does would sound qu...

No, Ferguson and Egan died before the advent of recording. O'Neill's book I believe tells when Ferguson went on a tour of the states with an opera soprano, and had the set made with his new found funds; the 1850s, maybe.

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For readers of the new issue of the American Pipers' Club Review, the tune transcribed by Kynch O'Kaine from Brian MacNamara's playing, "Neary's Jig," is also on Liam O'Flynn's "Fine Art of Piping" record, under the title "Johnny McGreevy's," named after the late Chicag...